Classes

Felted Wool Flower Pin

Fee: $45

Saturday & Sunday, October 23 & 24, 10am- Noon

Instructor: Beth Dary

Create a unique wet-felted flower pin and learn techniques for making additional felted baubles. Focus will be on making a ‘blossom’ from wool roving. You will also learn to make ‘snakes’ and ‘balls’ that can all be put together to make fun jewelry on their own, or adorn your flower. In the first class students will create a wet-felted flower base that will be stiffened. The second class we will embellish and assemble the dried flower. Basic hand sewing skills are needed to complete your piece. Materials are included in the fee, but if you have a special button or bead, bring it along. This class is suitable for

beginner to intermediate felters.

Batik on Silk

Fee: $60

Supply Fee: $12 to instructor

3 Tuesdays, begins October 26, 6-8 p.m.

Instructor: Jurga Petkus

Batik designs are unusual and enchanting! Make a beautiful silk scarf using wax resist and a batik tool. After the wax designs have dried, the background will be dyed to create your truly unique piece of art.

Painting- Intermediate/ Advanced

Fee: $75

6 Saturdays, begins October 30, 9:30- 11:30am

Instructor: Kathleen Laybourn, MFA

Have you been painting for a while now, and have the basics down? Are you ready for the next level? Oil painters bring your oil paints, noodor turpentine, and Liquin gel medium. Acrylic painters bring acrylic paints, acrylic gel medium, and a container for water. Everyone bring brushes, pallet knife and a canvas, board or paper to paint on. Bring images if you want them for reference. You may paint in any style or subject matter you wish.

Stained Glass Seminar

Fee: $45

Supply Fee: $5 to instructor

Sunday, November 14, 9am- Noon

Instructor: Melanie Hovey

This hands-on class introduces students to the copper-foil method(Tiffany style) stained glass craft by completing a small project. You will design a small sun-catcher, select and cut the glass, grind each piece, foil them and then solder the glass pieces together. All supplies provided.

Quilted Market Bag

Fee: $45

2 Tuesdays Sept 21-28 6-8pm

Instructor: Rosie LaMantia

Make a unique carry-all tote while learning the basics of machine quilting. Knowing how to use your sewing machine is a must. Supplies:

1 yard fabric

1 1/3 yard 1” webbing

1 yard or a crib size Cotton Batting

Sewing machine

Regular sewing foot

Walking foot or free-motion foot

Thread for quilting

Thread for assembling the bag

Sewing machine needle Topstitch 90/14 or 100/16

Straight pins and Scissors

If you have a rotary cutting mat, cutter and ruler bring them to the second class

University of Wisconsin- Parkside

Collaboration Classes

all classes held at Lemon Street Gallery unless noted otherwise

Precious Metal Clay- Beginner

Fee: $60

Supply Fee: $35 for silver

Saturday, September 25, 11am- 4pm

Instructor: Diane Leischow

Metal Clay has microscopic particles of silver in a polymer base. After it is molded stamped, or shaped it is fired in a kiln. The polymer is burned away and you are left with the purest fine silver .999. This class is perfect for beginners. You will complete a pair of silver earrings,

a 2-sided pendant, and maybe a heart for your honey. The instructor will fire and polish your pieces and return them to you.

Ceramics

Fee: $80.00

Supply Fee: Clay is purchased from the Gallery

for $1.00/pound; includes glazes and

firing.

6 Saturdays, begins October 2, 10am- 12:30pm

Instructor: Phyllis Boateng

Designed for beginning ceramics students, this class is a structured workshop so that students can work independently with the guidance of a skilled instructor close-at-hand. You will be introduced to clay, while learning many of the methods used for building, surface

decoration, glazing, and finishing hand-built pottery or sculpture.

Silk Painting

Fee: $60

Supply Fee: $12 to instructor

Saturday & Sunday, October 2 & 3, 9am- Noon

Instructor: Jurga Petkus

Whether used as a scarf or a pillow, hand painted silk is exquisite! Learn design layout and painting techniques while creating an original silk painting.

Bookbinding

Fee: $75

Supply Fee: $10 to instructor

4 Sundays, begins October 3, 1-4pm

Instructor: Rebecca Zastany

Learn a variety of book binding stitches, like the Western Case, pamphlet stitch and various Japanese binding techniques. You will learn how to transform an old book into a sketchbook or journal by replacing the old printed pages with freshly bound blank paper. You will also make a small soft cover book.

Mosiacs- Introduction

Fee: $75

Supply Fee: $12 to instructor

6 Thursdays, begins October 7, 6-8pm

Instructor: Kathleen Laybourn, MFA

From grandma’s broken teacups to sea glass and pebbles, you can use just about any hard material in a mosaic: china, tile, glass, and stones all work! You will learn the mosaic process by completing a small picture, and then may have time to start another 2-D or 3-D project. The small board and some materials will be provided. Please bring along some of your own materials in your favorite colors from home or purchased at thrift shops.

Encaustic Painting Seminar

Fee: $60

Supply Fee: $12 to instructor

1 Saturday, October 9, 9am- 1pm

Instructor: Kathleen Laybourn MFA

Encaustic is an ancient method, which combines oil paints, varnish, and beeswax to create a textural painting of remarkable color. The paint/wax mixture is applied with a palette knife, then heated until it melts and flows. This class is for beginner and intermediate painters. Bring oil paints if you have them and a lunch.

Drawing- Introduction

Fee: $75

Supply List: The instructor will provide an

additional list of drawing media.

6 Fridays, begins October 15, 11am-1pm

Instructor: Kathleen Laybourn MFA

Don’t just wish you could draw well, learn how! When you learn to see as an artist does, drawing come naturally. Coursework will cover contour, gesture, value and texture using a variety of drawing media. Although this class is perfect for beginners, students with some drawing experience will be given more challenging projects. Bring

an 18x24” or larger drawing pad (NOT newsprint), a drawing board or piece of Masonite to fit your pad, a 2B drawing pencil, and a white eraser to the first class.

Precious Metal Clay- Intermediate

Fee: $60

Supply Fee: $45 for use of tools, firing, PMC, glass

cabochon or lab gem, silver paper. (Tool kits may be purchased from the instructor for $20)

Saturday, October 16, 11am- 4pm

Instructor: Diane Leishchow

This class will show you how to set lab gems or glass cabochons (gems/stones) within your piece before it is fired. We will also focus on hollow form or 3-D pieces like beads by shaping cork paper into a bead shape, then painting thin layers of PMC (known as slip) over the

cork. Your bead, pendant, or earrings will be further embellished by attaching punched out shapes from PMC paper. The instructor will fire, polish, and have your pieces ready for pick up at the gallery in one week. Bring your tool kit, texture plates or hole punchers if you have them. The Basic PMC class is a pre-requisite

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Hand-made Soap & Luxuries

With Laura Zielinski

Intermediate Soap Making Combining Color/Fragrance

Fee: $25

Supply Fee: $15

1 Thursday Sept 23 6pm - 8pm

Of course, you will want to learn how to add fragrance and color to handmade soap to make it uniquely your own. You will create one pound of beautiful soap that is the color and scent that pleases you the most. The Basic Soap Making Class is a prerequisite.

Intermediate Soap Making II Superfatting Your Soap - Pure Decadence

Fee: $25

Supply Fee: $15

1 Thursday Sept 16 6pm - 8pm

Now that you understand the basics of cold-process soap making it’s time to take your soap-making to the next level. It’s time to learned the art of superfatting your soap. Superfatting is done with exotic oils and butters such as; Evening Primrose, Hemp Seed Jojoba, St. John’s Wort, Mango, etc. These will give your soap superior moisturizing and emollient qualities. Basic Soap is a prerequisite.